How about Benxi, Liaoning?

Benxi enjoys the reputation of "Prince City", "Northeast Mountain City" and "Shengjing Back Garden". On the northeast plain thousands of miles away, Benxi attracts many tourists for sightseeing with its unique mountain city landform. Benxi is located in the southeast of Liaoning Province (east longitude123 34' ~125 46', north latitude 40 49' ~ 4135'), with a total area of 841.3 square kilometers. It is adjacent to Shenyang and Fushun in the north (77km from Shenyang and 79km from Fushun), Dandong in the south (0/98km from Dandong/kloc), Liaoyang (46km from Liaoyang) and Anshan in the west, and Jilin (Benxi (1 1) in the east, and Tonghua 150km.

Benxi belongs to a temperate climate zone, with an average temperature of 6. 1~7.8 degrees Celsius, and the hottest average temperature in July is 24.3 degrees Celsius. The coldest January, the average temperature is-14.3℃. There is abundant rainfall, with an average annual precipitation of 800- 1000mm, half of which is concentrated in July and August in summer. Looking at the whole year, it is sunny in spring, slightly hot and rainy in summer, crisp in autumn and snowy in winter. The best tourist season is autumn.

Maple leaf capital

20 1 1 On September 8th, Niigata was officially named "Maple Leaf Capital of China" by the State Council! [ 16]

Maple Leaf Festival shows the tourism image of Benxi City, becomes the red business card of Benxi, and becomes the window and bridge for Benxi to go to the whole country and even the world.

Benxi maple leaf is a unique seasonal landscape in Benxi mountain area. There are beautiful trees, flowers, water and clouds in Guanmenshan area of Benxi. Every September, when the maple leaves are red, the maple leaves all over the mountain are red. Compared with the famous red leaves in Xiangshan, Beijing, it is a rare plant seasonal landscape in Northeast China.

Every year in Benxi Maple Leaf Festival, tourists from all directions flock to Benxi to see the mountains. In addition to tourists from all over the Northeast, there are also tourists from all over the world. Maple Leaf Festival has brought considerable economic benefits to Benxi people, receiving nearly one million tourists every year and earning more than 200 million yuan.

On September 20th, 20 12, the official opening ceremony of "Benxi, the capital of maple leaves in China" was held in Weibo. Com was held in Beijing. Meanwhile, the organizing committee of Maple Leaf Festival has put up a big screen in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. [1] We sincerely invite friends from all over the country to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Benxi Maple Leaf.

Since 1998, seven "Maple Leaf Festivals" have been held in Benxi, and in 20 13, the "Maple Leaf Festivals" in Benxi were upgraded to national tourism festivals. Through the establishment of "Maple Leaf Capital of China", Benxi's tourism industry has developed rapidly, with an average annual growth rate of more than 30%, with an average annual reception of more than 1000 million tourists and an income of more than 1000 million yuan.

Why are there so many beautiful maples in Benxi? Benxi City has dense forest resources, 80% of which are natural forests. The forestry department attaches great importance to the protection of natural forests, and a large number of maple trees "thrive" here, with an increasing scale. Forestry experts have artificially promoted this, and introduced some maple trees distributed in mountainous areas into the landscape belt and on both sides of the road, which increased the ornamental value.

Maple leaves begin to turn red in early October. Maple leaves turn red mainly depending on the weather. If the temperature is too high, the color of the maple leaves is still green, while if the temperature is close to below zero, the maple leaves will turn yellow or even wither.

Benxi Water Cave is the longest underground water-filled cave in the world, which was opened to the public on 1983. 1994 was approved by the people of China and the State Council as a national key scenic spot; 1997 was accepted as the first member of Asia by the International Tourist Cave Association; In March 2002, it was rated as AAAA-level scenic spot by the National Tourism Administration and passed the ISO9002 quality system certification. Water caves attract famous cave explorers at home and abroad to explore, and even Zhang Jian, who swam across the English Channel, came to challenge. The water tunnel covers an area of 36,000 square meters, with a total length of 2,300 meters, and is located 35 kilometers northeast of Benxi City. The scenic spot takes Benxi Water Cave as the main body and integrates mountains, water, caves, springs, lakes and ancient human cultural sites. Water caves are large limestone water-filled caves formed millions of years ago. This cave is deep and wide, which is the longest water-filled cave found in the world. The best time of maple leaves may be delayed or advanced according to the sudden change of climate. According to the practice of previous years, the color of maple leaves often changes from green to red from early to middle of 10/0 every year. At that time, maple leaves can be seen on both sides of this ring road leading to Benxi County and Huanren County, as well as other scenic spots such as Guanmen Mountain.

According to the introduction of many travel agencies in Benxi, the number of tourists visiting Benxi will increase by spurt every September, reaching 10. Most of them come to see the maple leaves, and many of them are photographers, who live in the mountains for several weeks with "long guns and short guns" on their backs.